Re: [PATCH (GIT-GUI,GITK) 1/8] git-gui: Cleanup handling of the default encoding.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:00:07PM +0400, Alexander Gavrilov wrote:

You are here missing the fact, that the actual current default for
git-gui is not utf-8, but 'binary', essentially equivalent to
ISO-8859-1.

In this case, I was just confused by the comment to the patch, which was
saying "Make diffs and blame default to the system (locale) encoding
instead of hard-coding UTF-8."

UTF-8 was suggested by a patch that has been around in the
'pu' branch since January, and which I took as a base for my series.
Gitk on the other hand uses the locale encoding.

I see... Then your patch makes perfect sense regardless of Windows
support, which was presented as the rationale for the patch.

Thanks,
Dmitry